With capacity to produce 6,700 tonnes per year, or around 15 tonnes per day in each shift, Candy Factory Angola plans to hire 150 professionals in the first two years, of whom 90 percent will be Angolan. It could create 350 direct and indirect jobs by the end of that year.
The factory is a sugar confectionery factory, located in the Luanda Special Economic Zone (SEZ), which will produce sambapitos sweets, sweets and chewing gum, and whose investment totals 15 billion kwanzas.
The mixed capital company (Angolan and foreign) last week received a visit from the Minister for Economy and Planning, Mário Augusto Caetano João, who was accompanied by members of the boards of ZEE, AIPEX and INAPEM.
Candy Factory Angola proposes to actively contribute to economic diversification and industrial growth, producing for the local market and for new markets, assuming a relevant role in the balance of trade, insofar as it will no longer be necessary to import 15,000 tons/year of these products that currently enter Angola. As well as supplying the national market, the Candy Factory plans to export to neighbouring countries, for which brands and specific products are already being developed.
08/08/2022
